Program Notes

Title: Fair Haiku

Subtitle: Six Songs for Tenor and Piano

Genre: Vocal Music

Instrumentation: tenor, piano

Text: Michael Scherperel (from the novel Fair to Middling)

Language: English

Duration: ca 20' (2'45"; 5'15"; 3'00"; 4'25"; 4'10")

Description: These six poems, in the form of classical Japanese haiku, are drawn from the novel Fair to Middling by Michael Scherperel (available on Kindle from Amazon). The name of each character in the novel who fictitiously wrote the poem is given in the score on the first page of each song. The five songs share musical material with specific ideas around night, dreaming, water, brotherhood, and other themes. The tenor part is for a lyric tenor with a range from f (c optional) to bˉ¹.

Items: The product download includes one complete piano-vocal score. If a hardcopy is ordered, the same item will be provided. PLEASE DO NOT COPY. If you need more than one copy, please order multiples of the product. PDF files are formatted for 8½x11 in multiples of four pages with blank pages embedded as needed making the documents suitable for booklet printing on 11x17.